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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, I take this opportunity to thank the honourable, indefatigable, legend Senator from the great county of Kakamega for ably moving this Bill before this House. This Bill has only 10 clauses. It is one of the most important Bills that defines the duties of this Senate of the Republic of Kenya. Some of the clauses are extremely important and we need to let the people know what these clauses stand for. I will not repeat that there are conditional and unconditional grants. Maybe I will come back to it, but I wanted to emphasize on Clause 7. Clause 7 talks about the Cabinet Secretary who is supposed to publish the entire quarterly report of what monies they have transferred conditionally in the whole Republic of Kenya to the various counties. It is not a secret anymore and we want Kenyan to start looking at these figures, so that people can see what is happening in their counties. Believe you me, even though you live here in Nairobi, the day you die, we are going to hire a bus and sing songs and take you to Tana River if you came from there or any other county. You will probably be ferried by bus or some vehicle. It is critical for people who are living in Nairobi, Mombasa and these big counties because of work, to know that every quarter, there is some money that is coming to your county. Take time to know. It is not proper for our professionals to only keep quiet and then start criticizing leaders, saying, “what is the Senator doing?” “What is happening in my county?” This is when we have already executed our duty and sent this money and a report has been published. I want to use the Floor of this House to tell fellow professionals, colleagues and citizens who are listening to us, that it is not enough for you to just contribute to harambees for sending children to school and harambees that are in your village that involve construction of a classroom or the church and you say you are doing well. You must directly get involved to know, when these funds are transferred, what is it that they The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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